The Mightiest Little Master of Metaphysics
Chapter 171 - 169 That Family Has Been Dead for a Long Time (Part 1)

Chapter 171: Chapter 169 That Family Has Been Dead for a Long Time (Part 1)

The next day.

After breakfast, the long street had already returned to its usual bustle.

There weren’t many tourists on the street; business hadn’t started early in the morning, so a few vendors gathered together to chat.

A vendor selling tourist souvenirs shook his head and sighed, "How could such a great master just be burned to death like that."

"Living alone is still unsafe. Someone as skilled as Master Huang couldn’t even detect a fire in his house, burning both himself and the house down."

"So pitiful, it seems next year’s Nuoxi parade will need a new participant."

...

After they finished speaking, they dispersed in pairs.

Inside the hotel, standing before the floor-to-ceiling glass window, Qin Luo withdrew his gaze, turned around, and looked at the photo of six people still on the table.

"So Huang Mingzhuo admitted that those six bodies were refined by him?" Qin Luo asked.

Yun Qi nodded, "He said someone hired him to do it, aiming to create evil corpses to attack brother."

Yang He inhaled deeply in fear, "Fortunately, we discovered it in time and brought them back to the Capital City for burial."

According to Huang Mingzhuo, the plan was to make the six into evil corpses, then nail them in a coffin, and leak information to the Capital City. Qin Luo, being sentimental, would definitely personally bring people over.

By then, when the coffin was opened, the evil corpses would be released, and no one present would escape.

"This is Huang Mingzhuo’s mobile phone; it should still have records of his transactions with that person." Yun Qi took out a cell phone in a plastic bag, handed it to Yang He, then looked at Qin Luo.

For some reason, she suddenly sensed Qin Luo’s sinking mood.

The twelve-year-old boy’s eyebrows drooped, long lashes trembled, as if troubled by some sad emotions.

Sensing Yun Qi’s gaze, Qin Luo looked up, gave her a faint smile, and reached out his hand, "I’m okay."

Yun Qi also reached out her warm little hand, holding Qin Luo’s hand, giving him a determined look, "It’s okay, brother. If you feel sad, it’s okay to cry. Qi won’t laugh at you."

Qin Luo instead was amused, took a deep breath, gathered his spirits, and his eyes immediately turned sharp and profound, coldly saying to Yang He, "Go investigate, make sure to find out who is behind this, no matter who it leads to, report to me without hesitation."

Yang He strongly and firmly replied, "Yes."

Yun Qi blinked her eyes, if Qin Luo said so, he must have also realized the mastermind behind all this is definitely a member of the Qin Family, someone close to Qin Luo.

He had no intention of harming anyone, but his own family regarded him as an eyesore, certainly due to the Old Master’s influence.

Qin Luo only stayed down for a few minutes before regaining his composure.

"Yun Qi, do you still have any tasks to do next?"

Yun Qi didn’t look at him, her gaze crossed the glass window towards the distant village. The stone village was hidden in the mist, as if silently telling mysterious stories. It’s said that this place had a tradition of driving corpses, and thus there had always been rumors of zombies and witchcraft.

"Brother, there’s something I find really strange. The first time I went to Huang Mingzhuo’s house, I noticed there were many bodies buried inside and outside his courtyard, and corpse energy emanated from upstairs. I suspected he normally refined zombies at home."

"However..." Yun Qi paused, her little face extremely serious and solemn, "at least when we visited during the day, those bodies were just bodies, with no signs of being refined. Why did they all turn into zombies overnight?"

Qin Luo, "Are you saying that the cause of the zombie transformation was someone else?"

"Yes, Huang Mingzhuo has been refining evil corpses for many years and should be very experienced. How could he be unaware of a large-scale zombie transformation?" Yun Qi said, pointing her hand toward the foggy village outside the window.

"Brother, I want to go there and have a look."

***

Guyue County’s village is nationally famous, everywhere one looks is stone. Houses are constructed from stone, roads are paved with stone slabs, walls are built with stone blocks, even door frames and rooftops use stone strips and stone tiles. Because many tourists visit every year, the stone slab roads are kept very clean, verdant is visible everywhere, and behind the village lies an expansive primeval forest.

When Yun Qi and the others arrived, it was afternoon. After wandering around the village, visiting the famous shopping street, they soon reached dusk, with the thin twilight of sunset and birds returning to their nests, but they didn’t find any anomalies after walking around all afternoon.

Yun Qi and Qin Luo prepared to head back when suddenly the sound of children arguing came from a nearby alley.

A few kids were playing a game, when, for some reason, a disagreement arose.

A slightly older girl angrily counted, "One, two, three, four, five, six, a total of six people, three in a group, is that so hard?"

"Where are six people?" Another slightly younger girl disagreed, pointing her fingers around, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there’s seven people, how to split?"

"How can there be seven, there’s clearly six! One, two, three, four, five, six!" the older child hastily counted pointedly.

Before the younger girl could speak, a three-year-old toddler in the audience babbled, "One... two... three... four... five... six... seven, Granny, seven people." He looked up, with a face full of innocence, at the granny beside him.

The granny lightly patted her granddaughter’s face, smiling, "Our Anan can count numbers now."

Yang Xiu turned around, watched with interest for a while, and said to Qin Luo with a smile, "Young Master, this group of kids is quite amusing, they can’t even count properly."

Qin Luo didn’t respond to him, instead fixing his gaze on Yun Qi.

Yun Qi furrowed her brow and bit her lip, her sharp eyes focused on where the children were.

The older kid’s age was not small, so it’s normal not to see it, but the other children should have all seen it.

There was indeed a seventh person present.

Because of his unique physique, Qin Luo had also seen it, whispering, "Qi, that person’s face is green."

Yun Qi nodded, "Brother, wait here for me, I’ll be right back."

Yun Qi walked towards the group of children, with her small hands behind her back, looking very curious, "What are you playing, can I join?"

The children turned to look at her, "Are you here for tourism? Then you can’t join, you won’t know how."

Yun Qi didn’t argue, just picked at her fingers, standing aside watching.

That green ghost shadow glanced at her, sensing the Xuan Shu Master’s special aura around her, immediately turned and headed deeper down the bluestone lane.

Yun Qi followed behind, and a child asked in a childish voice, "Where are you going? Where are your adults? There’s no one inside, they all died many years ago."

Yun Qi pretended not to hear and continued walking inside. The child could only scratch his head in confusion before continuing to play with the other little friends.

The bluestone path grew more secluded, more inclined, leading upward with increasingly dilapidated houses on either side, looking like they hadn’t been lived in for a long time.

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